I don't know about you but I happen to be pretty lazy when it comes to taking breaks while working in front of a computer. This is especially true if I am working from home. There is always "let me finish this first and then I'll take a break" which of course, never happens. Knowing [...]

Like many other storage enthusiasts, I also attended the live Storage Tech Field Day 5 (#SFD5) presentation by Satyam Vaghani (@SatyamVaghani) of PernixData (@PernixData). In case you missed it, here is a link to recordings of the presentation, conveniently broken down into areas of focus. The presentation was about the current version: PernixData FVP 1.5, [...]

Security is a subject that has historically been overlooked by companies/vendors when it comes to deployment of new systems. Generally, an easy and quick way out is preferred, especially when there are time-pressures to deliver a project or solution. That situation is exacerbated due to the fact that techies don't generally give security much thought [...]

In my last post, I discussed the things that are important to me when I am considering to build a new machine for my lab and my reasons for choosing certain options when building a new one. I promised to report on what I bought and built after making the decisions above and how it went, [...]

For those of you who follow VMware products closely, the past couple of weeks have been quite interesting. VMware has announced vSphere 5.0 which has a lot of new exciting features and as always, bigger limits for resources that people are unlikely to hit... ever! However, it is unfortunate that this version of vSphere is making headlines [...]

Just wanted to add a note about DCPROMO (the program that "promotes" a server to become an Active Directory Domain Controller) and the need to have Remote Registry service enabled for it to succeed. Generally, you wouldn't expect DCPROMO to be dependent on such a service but the reality is that there is a dependency and [...]

Companies involved in IT (or other fields), usually develop relationships with vendors/consultant firms over years of working with them. We are no different and also have such relationships. However, the time has come for our account manager in one such company to move on to bigger and better things. Generally, it's customary for account managers to introduce you to [...]

Like most people in IT, I wear different hats. I am an Architect, Techie, Manager - to name a few. The challenge it gives me is how to balance the roles I've got and still come up with the right answer. The dilemma I generally have is this: As an architect, I design systems. Before deployment [...]

I started working with Virtualization when VMware made it available to the x86 environment, little more than a decade ago. People didn't really know about it and things that we take for granted these days, were quite difficult to do. For that reason, take up was a bit slow but in recent years with technologies maturing, it has [...]